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Summary: Inspires Baking...
Review: This series is great and the characters are ones that you want to read about more. I constantly felt the need to go bake (and sample!) the many great recipes that were included in the book.The mysteries are light, but not thoroughly transparent. I'll get the next book that comes out in this series!
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Summary: Good book in a fun series
Review: Veteran author Joanne Fluke has produced another winner in the Hannah Swensen series. This time the cookie baking sleuth finds her friend Danielle standing over the dead body of her abusive husband, a local high school coach. Never doubting Danielle's innocence, Hannah, with the surprisingly able assistance of her ever so feminine sister, Andrea, tackles a private investigation of the murder. The twists and surprises don't stop and neither do the mouth-watering references to dinners and desserts.Part of the charm of this series is that Hannah is surrounded by nice people and loving, supportive family members. She also has two competing admirers, one, a fix-up by her mother and his, the other a police officer who works for her brother-in-law. Hannah thoughtfully debates the virtues of each since one is movie star handsome and the other is bright and kind. There is no question we'll see Hannah exploring her options next time around. The series is set in Minnesota where the weather is cold but the people are not, but don't start with this book. Please read "The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder" first so you can meet Hannah, her friends, her family and her suspects and not miss a single detail. You won't be sorry, and you'll wait anxiously for next year's book.
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Summary: This book is hazardous to your waistline.
Review: WARNING: Do not read this book while attempting to diet. You're apt to start eating the pages. Following up on her first Hannah Swensen mystery, Ms. Fluke again pits the Cookie Lady against evil forces when Hannah happens upon the body of Lake Eden's sports coach, Boyd Watson. Since Boyd has been known to abuse his wife, she becomes the prime suspect, but good friend that she is...Hannah doesn't believe it. And she sets out to try and find the real killer--of which many seem to fit the bill. Interspersed among her sleuthing are mouth-watering recipes Hannah is using during the televised coverage of the 1st Hartland Flour Dessert Bake-off. Just reading the recipies made visions of Cocoa Snaps dance before my eyes. There are a few interchanges between Hannah and Mike Kingston (who we met in Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder), but not enough to satisfy this reader. <hint hint> However, since the dust cover tells me that Ms. Fluke is working on the next Swensen mystery, perhaps we'll get to see more of Hannah's social life. The author is an automatic-buy for me and I'm looking forward to the next book in this series as I've grown rather fond of the Cookie Lady.
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Summary: Another Tasty Treat
Review: Who knew life in a small town could be so yummy? Or deadly?
Hannah Swensen can't seem to stop baking up the mysteries, no matter how much her mother wishes it were otherwise. This time her culinary talents are needed for judging a bake off in Lake Eden, Minnesota. Finding a body is becoming old hat to this amateur sleuth. Finding the body of local high school coach, and wife abuser Boyd Watson with her own strawberry shortcake scattered around is another recipe altogether. Now Hannah’s friend Danielle is being investigated for the murder of her husband, but Hannah doesn’t believe it for a minute. Despite strict instructions from sometimes date Mike Kingston, head detective, to keep her mixer out of the investigation, Hannah makes the time to sift through all the evidence she can find with the help of her sister and Norman the other man in her life.
A sprinkle of romance, a pinch of humor and a heaping helping of delicious recipes make this book rise to the occasion.
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